The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.
More Quotes from Mary Astell:
Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.Mary Astell
Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
Mary Astell
. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.
Mary Astell
If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'
Mary Astell
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.
Mary Astell
God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.
Mary Astell
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